DRESS-UP PUSS AND CHICKY CUT OUTS
1950
Mid-century "double doll" pop-up featuring a cat figure and a chick figure, accompanied by two "costume books" with clothes for the dolls.
Pop-Ups and Moveables
FUNNY JUNGLELAND MOVING-PICTURES
1909
Exuberant transformation book with moveable flaps that allow the user to dress anthropomorphized animals in various costumes.
HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE DAIRY
[circa 1950s]
First edition of this charming midcentury milk truck-shaped story book, extolling the virtues of milk and good behavior.
IMPROVED MOVEABLE ALPHABET
[circa 1840]
Lovely moveable alphabet wheel, showing each letter as the wheel turns through a window within a larger hand-colored illustration of a cozy interior domestic scene.
Nativity Advent Calendar
[circa 1960]
First edition of this charming pop-up Advent calendar, featuring the Nativity and liftable flaps that reveal winter scenes and toys.
TALES FROM FAIRYLAND: With Cut-out and Stand-up Pictures
[circa 1905]
Handsome, richly colored, and fully intact copy of this early movable book from Saalfield, a rare unused book of these classic fairy-tale-themed stand-ups.
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
(1980)
A wonderful pop-up and moveable edition with six pop-ups and five moveables imaginatively engineered by James Roger Díaz, including double-page playing card pop-ups.
BIBLE STORIES FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
1953
Mid-century American pop-up book, featuring four color pop-us of Noah, Daniel, Moses, and David and Goliath.
PADDY FINDS A JOB
1981
First edition of this story told only in pictures, featuring marvelous pop-up and moveable pages of the misadventures of Paddy, a humanized pig.
CHILD'S BOOK OF VERSE
(1920)
Uncommon collection of poems pre-dating Winnie the Pooh yet very similar in tone, with striking illustrations.
JILL
[circa 1950]
Splendidly preserved moveable with a little girl's head and legs hinged so that she can try on various dresses, scarce in this condition.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PETRONELLA PIG
(1978)
First American edition of the famous first book of Hauptmann, EIN TAG IM LEBEN DER DOROTHEA WUTZ – a story told without text, using die-cuts to created a moveable illustration effect.
ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES, A PEEPSHOW BOOK
1950
An unusual fold-out book, accordian style with scenes of Ali Baba tale in prosedium style cut-outs. Striking and intricate.
EINE FAHRT INS ZWERGENLAND
[1954]
Charming make-your-own-scene book featuring humanized bugs and frogs and a host of their fairy and gnome friends, issued as loose figures to be fit into the color plates.
THE MANY MICE OF MR. BRICE
[1973]
First printing of this pseudonymous Dr. Seuss book with pop-ups and moveables, including two mechanisms not present in later printings.
WHAT A SURPRISE
[1906]
First printing of this beautiful mechanical dissolving views book, an excellent example of Nister's primacy in the world of moveable books.
WINNIE THE POOH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN CUT-OUT DOLLS
1935
First edition of this remarkably intact large-format WINNIE THE POOH paper doll set, depicting the characters from the stories in a style much closer to the original stuffed animals that inspired the stories.
MY WHIRLIGIG FAIR BOOK
(1929)
Lovely and unusual movable children's book with intricate gear turning mechanisms, from the Buzza Company with Gordon Volland as editorial director.
SANTA VISITS MOTHER GOOSE
1953
Mid-century American Christmas and nursery rhyme-themed pop-up book, following Santa as he visits Mother Goose and her friends.
THE MAGIC PICTURE BOOK
(1908)
First printing of this collection of Mother Goose rhymes made dynamic with liftable flaps, with illustrations by Robert H. Porteous in the style of Denslow.
JIMMY HAS LOST HIS CAP
(1959) [but no earlier than 1969]
US printing of GIGI CERCA IL SUO BERRETTO, an innovative picture book featuring minimalist text with moveable flaps that reveal hidden illustrations with a distinct surrealist touch.
12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
1996
First printing of one of the most well executed pop-ups of its kind, with each spread containing two pop-ups, one emerging as the leaf is opened, the other under a flap.
Promotional Booklet for AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
2004
Signed promotional booklet with pop-up Washington D. C. landmarks, by "the indisputable king of pop-up" (Andersen).
Lyons Lion Advertising Slice Book
[circa 1965]
First edition of this exceptionally rare Sendak advertising title featuring the lion mascot of the Lyons event planning company.
CHRISTMAS TIME IN ACTION
1949
Mid-century Christmas-themed pop-up book, including "The Night Before Christmas," with 4 full-color pop-ups of Christmas scenes, from Santa's workshop to opening gifts.
